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2025/06/24

June 24, 2025
A metal object shaped like a howitzer shell or a short, fat, rocket: curved sides, pointed tip. Three legs emerge from beneath it. The object has one round portal on the right side, through which can be seen the profile of a human face. The face is harsh, expressionless, and remote. The window is a fluorescent yellow-green. The object itself, and the legs beneath it, are indigo with an iridescent green sheen. This is placed against a yellow background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/23

June 23, 2025
Two planets hanging in a vast, blue space. The largest one, closest to the viewer, has the letter "B" carved into it. A distance away is a smaller planet with "A" visible on its surface. Streaking between them is a blazing white comet, its light reflecting off both planets. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/22

June 22, 2025
A heavy metal safe—the cubic kind with the dial in the center and the heavy hinges—sits on top of some metal pilings, in the middle of a barren black meadow. A little metal ladder leads up to it. The sky above is gray and cloudy. A small, irregular pathway winds towards the safe. Extending from the right side of the safe is a tall chimney made of black pipe. A wisp of white smoke is coming out of the chimney. To the right of the path is a mailbox. Someone seems to have built their house with the big bad wolf in mind. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/21

June 21, 2025
A misshapen, lumpy, drab-green creature wanders in a bright green world. The creature is slightly hunched over, with a weird, unnatural-looking arm and clawlike hand. The creature is wearing a black VR headset on its face, along with AirPods, an Apple Watch, and a 90s-style pager on its hip. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/20

June 20, 2025
A small submersible craft hovers a few feet above the ocean floor. The craft is mostly black, with hints of a drab green metal exterior. Towards the rear is a glowing blue-green portal with a cat sitting in it. The front of the craft has a bubble-shaped windshield, also glowing blue. A small white light is on the hatchway. Someone is sitting behind the windshield, steering the craft. There is some tiny green text stenciled on the side of the submersible but it's too small to read. Directly below the craft, illuminating the underside, is a blazing white hole in the ocean floor. All around, the sea is dark blue fading to black. There are no other signs of life. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/19

June 19, 2025
A figure wearing a dark purple suit dances against a bright crimson background, holding an oddly-shaped horn that looks sort of like a saxophone. The figure has a windup key sticking out of its back. For a head, it has a spherical yellow smiley-face hovering above its neck. Floating above its head is a hazy yellowish halo. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/18

June 18, 2025
A mostly abandoned landscape under a greenish-yellow sky. In the foreground is a large house with tall windows and an open garage door. The house looks like it is surrounded by tall grass. In the background is the dim outline of a factory building with two smokestacks. A hazy sun sits high in the sky. The only person in the scene is a witch with a tall hat, sitting on a broomstick and flying under the sun. This is a primarily yellow and green painting, signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/17

June 17, 2025
A dark, conical mountain under a vast blue sky. The mountain is craggy, with rocky striations defined in dark purple. Planted on both sides of the mountain are flaming yellow torches. Standing on the very top of the mountain is a small human figure with its arms up. Hovering in the sky above it, like a UFO or an omen, is a huge white cloud icon that looks a little like Apple's iCloud logo. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/16

June 16, 2025
A scene that looks like it's rendered in charcoal, or black and white paint. A dark figure hunches over a blazing white fire, holding a white mask in front of it near to the flames. The light reflects off the front of the figure. The figure has a flat, blank, white area where its face would be. Sitting on its back is another eerie white figure with very thin arms, a round head, and empty black eyes. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/15

June 15, 2025
A dark, dismally gray environment, like a cloudy day in early evening. Placed to the right of a small path is a tall Victorian-looking lamp post, the lamp unlit. Across the path, next to the lamp, is a person holding a long rod with a flaming end. The person is holding the rod towards the lamp, as though to light it. The flaming part of the rod is blazing white and yellow, emitting a trail of smoke that shift into iridescent greens and blues. The person also has a slightly iridescent tinge, reflecting both the yellow torchlight and a greenish tinge. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/14

June 14, 2025
A black background with a red symbol on it: a circle with a diagonal bar through it, the "prohibited" symbol. Inside the symbol, appearing to be reaching out from it, is a minimalist white cartoon figure of a shouting man wearing a crown too large for his head and clutching a phone. The man's tie overlaps the lower boundary of the red symbol. This, of course, is Donald Trump, rendered in a Ghostbusters symbol. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/13

June 13, 2025
A sinister figure wearing a suit stands against a dark purple background. The figure doesn't actually have a head; floating above the empty neck of the dress shirt is a glowing smiley-face that appears to be rendered in dripping fluorescent blue-yellow paint hovering in the air. Floating above that is a halo that looks very similar. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/12

June 12, 2025
A reddish yellow sky over the desert. In the distance and foreground are craggy reddish rock formations that reflect the yellow sunlight. Soaring overhead is a black, triangular craft that does not look like it's from this world. On the underside at its front is a glowing green circle. Glowing green lines are placed on the rear edges of both of its wings, and it has other lines that give it a sleek, alien appearance. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/11

June 11, 2025
A rural landscape at dusk. In the foreground are tree-covered purple hills, with a dark tree line on the left. A winding road runs through it. In the distance, sunlight burns greenish yellow on the horizon. The sky is blue shifting into deep indigo. On the horizon, but closer, is an oddly shaped tower. It emerges from the ground at an angle and then straightens up, with a larger area at the top like a turret. On the top are a few small antennas with glowing white lights. Behind the primary tower is a tall smokestack with smoke coming out. It has small glowing green lights on it, and looks like some weird industrial installation that doesn't correspond to any known design. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/10

June 10, 2025
An odd looking yellow taxi cruises through the night. The taxi is taller than it is long, with a checkered yellow and black stripe along the side. The base of the taxi has red, orange, and yellow stripes along it. The taxi itself is yellow with a greenish blue tinge to it, and a small orange light on top. Most unusually, the taxi does not have wheels; extending from the wheel wells are two red legs wearing green boots with yellow stripes. No driver or passenger is visible. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/06/09

June 9, 2025
A scene of darkness, dominated by a volcano-like structure in the center. The volcano is spitting a geyser of greenish-white light and smoke into the heavy greenish clouds. A small path and staircase, carved into the surrounding rock, leads to the volcano. Mounted on a  plateau right off the path is a small building that suggests an outhouse. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/08

June 8, 2025
A small yellow path winds through a grassy meadow at night. The meadow is a blend of greens and yellows, speckled with small white and yellow flowers. The sky is a medium blue, with a large white crescent moon and stars. To the right of the path is a small yellow sign with the word "Exit" on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/07

June 7, 2025
A portrait of a man. The portrait is roughly divided into two styles: the left side is more painterly, while the right side is a bitmap composed of pixels. The man has slightly wild black hair, glasses, and a mustache, and is smiling. The overall composition is mixed-media on a gray background, with tinges of rainbow colors and colored pixels placed throughout the painting. The person depicted is Apple designer and engineer Bill Atkinson. The pixel part of this is based on an existing icon included in HyperCard; I'm unsure of who the artist is. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Thinking of Bill Atkinson tonight.

2025/06/06

June 6, 2025
A log extends across a rocky chasm. Walking across the log is a slightly hunched, bearded figure with a crooked staff and a top hat. A clock key is sticking out of the figure's back. In the distance is the blurry suggestion of a forest. This painting is rendered in shades of bright pink, and signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/05

June 5, 2025
A small figure stands on a desert slope, under a vast yellow sky striped with light clouds. The slope is various shades of brown and dark blue, tinged with red at the horizon, and has striations that suggest the patterns of sand blown by wind. The figure is flying a kite that looks sort of like a sea creature, with a long tail and streamers and a shield-shaped body. The kite is reddish with shades of blue and purple, and has two round eyes. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/04

June 4, 2025
A cloudy, gray night. A machine is walking through the night: a metal machine the greenish color of tarnished copper, with two robotic legs, a rectangular body, and a lamp mounted in front. The body looks like a small outbuilding with a pointed roof and a single round window on the side, glowing greenish-yellow. On the rear of the machine is a clock key. The headlamp looks almost like a desk lamp: conical and pointed down, casting a fuzzy white beam on the grass below. Small particles are visible in the beam. The side of the machine is clearly metal, with a seam and bolts. Sitting in the window is the black silhouette of a cat. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/03

June 3, 2025
A large, dark space. To the left is a small, glowing, yellow-green sphere. To the right, surrounding it, are a set of much larger planetlike spheres dully reflecting the light. While mostly dark, the light reflecting off them reveals that they are different colors: green, purple, pink. Most of the spheres are suspended by strings. One sphere is mounted on a rod coming up from the ground. One sphere, the smallest, is the head of a shadowy suit-wearing figure standing in the lower right corner. A greenish fog rises up from the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/02

June 2, 2025
A flat, barren space—a desert, perhaps—with a neon-green-yellow sky and slightly darker ground below it. Blasting into the sky is a blazing white bolt of light that leaves a yellow trail behind it. It looks like a firework, or a rocket blastoff without the rocket. To the left of it is a figure, one arm extended, as though either warding off the bolt of light or summoning it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/01

June 1, 2025
A weird, alien-looking remnant of some decaying piece of infrastructure. The object, sticking up out of the ground, is rusty brown and unrecognizable but looks large. It is shaped roughly like a wrench-head. Some might see a face in profile, with an open mouth and jagged teeth. The object has pipes, dangling wires, and pieces that suggest they were once part of a grill. A small red warning triangle is applied to one of its surfaces. Next to it, a smaller pipe sticks up out of the ground with wires coming out of it. The sky is a bright yellow, with a hazy sun in the top right. In the background are vague brown shapes that could be trees or buildings. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/31

May 31, 2025
A blurry impressionist painting of a crimson figure with two horns and a glowing white halo hovering above its head. The background is an eerie blend of aqua green and yellow. The brushstroke texture gives the overall painting an amorphous, dreamlike quality. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/30

May 30, 2025
A vast chasm between two steep, craggy sides of a cliff. The left cliffside is crimson with sunlight, fading to purple; the right cliff is mostly in shadow, with a thin edge of crimson on the left edge. The sky is blue. A pale, round moon sits in the top right of the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/29

May 29, 2025
A small, dark path winds through a blazing red meadow. Even though it's at night, the grass in the meadow is bright red and yellow, fading to neon greenish on the horizon. Looming up in the distance are the dark hulks of what look like apartment buildings. There are no lights or lit windows anywhere on them. A full moon sits in the dark blue-green sky, surrounded by stars. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/28

May 28, 2025
A person without a head pushes a hand trolley on which is placed a giant stone head. The head is several times the size of the person and rectangular, with harsh, craggy features and empty eyes. A small hole on its cheek suggests that it might be a mask. The head is a dull, stony blue. The ground and background are bright green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/27

May 27, 2025
A very small building, the size of an elevator car, positioned on a grassy hill. It is night; the sky is cloudy gray, with a thin orange crescent of a moon. The building is rather ornate, with the suggestion of faded reddish paint. The front of it is occupied entirely by a door with an arched window that glows green. Fixed to the right side of the building is a small sign that says "exit" in bright red block letters. Uneven steps lead up to the building. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/26

May 26, 2025
A large, rusty metal machine staggers forwards on two mechanical legs. The machine looks like something between a construction vehicle and a short, squat locomotive. It has a large grill in front,a small cab up top with no windshield, and a small door in the side. A tall smokestack extends up from the front hood. The machine has headlights and yellow warning stripes, with a faded red triangle painted on the side. Moss and dirt hangs from the underside. No driver is visible. The sky is an eerie goldenrod yellow. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/25

May 25, 2025
A dark, grim space that shows a concrete floor and nothing else. In the middle of the concrete floor is a neatly drilled hole, like a manhole without a cover. A ladder protrudes from the darkness of the hole. Beyond, the room extends into darkness. Hanging from above is a glowing sign with white letters. While the glow is predominantly white, it ranges across a number of different colors: yellow, green, pink. The letters say "Open". The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/24

May 24, 2025
A stiff figure in a suit tilts sideways, looking off-balance. Fixed to its head is a large, glowing white halo mounted on a small pole. Thin smoke rises from the halo. The halo is plugged into a wall outlet, and it is the shortness of the cable that is causing the figure to tilt. This is a dull green and periwinkle painting, with the figure rendered in dark shades of periwinkle. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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